His year-long break followed on from the success of his second album 'X', which gave us the likes of Sing, Don’t and Thinking Out Loud.

And earlier this year, on Friday January 6, after a year of no social media communication, he gave his fans a very warm hello by posting a video on Twitter in which he is seen waving to fans whilst holding a piece of paper with the words, “New music coming Friday!!” written on it.